Bottle or similar receptacle.



Patented, Aug. 14,1900.

J. UCUNNOR. BOTTLE 0B SIMILAR REGEPTACLE. (Application filed Oct. 27, 1899.)

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IN AWIYIIIIA,

WITNESSES:

llnrrnn STA as JOHN OCONNOR, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN GOODGHILD, GUARDIAN, OF SAME PLACE.

BOTTLE OR SIMILAR RECEPTACLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,887, dated August 14, 1900. Application filed October 2'7, 1899. Serial No. 784,915. (No model) To all w it y wern: sides all around present an incline to the axis Be it known that I, JOHN OOONNOR, a oiti of the bottle-neck. Above the plug 7 and zen of the United States, residing in the borconnected therewith is a tubular neck-plug ough of Manhattan, in the city, county, and 8. This plug fits down into the bottle-neck,

State of New York, have invented certain new is provided with a packing ring 9, of cork, and useful Improvements in Bottles or Simirubber, or other yielding material, and has lar Receptacles, of which the following is a or may have a flange 8 at its top to rest on specification. the bottle at its mouth and limit the extent This invention relates to that class of botto which the plug 8 can be pushed down into IO tles and similar receptacles for liquids which the neck. At its lower end the plug 8 has an when once emptied cannot be refilled or at outwardly fiared nipple 8 which engages an least cannot be refilled except at an expense undercut transverse groove 7 in the top or or cost too great to permit of their being used upper end of the plug 7. The purpose of a second time. this coupling together of the plugs 7 and 8, 15 In theacoompanyingdrawingsseveral forms as described, is to prevent the plug '7 from of the invention are shown. descending too far into the neck, and by mak- Figure 1 is an axial section of the neck of ing the parts 7 and 8 separate or non-integral a bottle provided with my invention. Fig. 2 the ring 9 may be slipped into place without is a side elevation of the tubular neck-plug cutting it. However, it is feasible to make 20 detached. Fig. 3 is aside elevation, and Fig. the plugs 7 and 8 in one piece or integral, as 4 a plan or end view, of the caging-plug deshown in Fig. 8; but in that case the packtached; and Fig. 5 shows the hollow buoyant ing-ring 9, if of cork, will have to be out or valve in plan and elevation, detached. Fig. in two sections in order to place it. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 1, but showing the Fig. 9 shows the position assumed by the 25 valve-seat formed integrally with the bottle. ball and valve in pouring out the liquid from Fig. 7 is a View similar to Fig. l, but show the bottle. To displace the ball, so that the ing the device mounted in a tube which is invalve may open, the neck must be inclined serted in abottle-neck. Fig. Sis a view illusuntil the inclined surface of the conical retrating a construction wherein the neck'plug oess in the caging-plug 7 assn mesahorizontal 30 and caging-plug are made integral or in one position, at least-,before the ball will roll away piece. Fig. 9 shows the bottle of Fig. 1 tilted from the valve of itself. The liquid flows for pouring out the liquid contents. past the valve into the (raging-chamber, and Referring first to Figs. 1 to 5, inclusive, X thence by way of channels 10, variously represents a bottle, of which m is the neck. formed in the exterior surface of the plug 7 35 The device which prevents the refilling of the and apertures 11, suitably provided in the bottle is fitted into the neck thereof, and this lower end of 'the plug 8 to the bore 12 in said device will now be described. plug, and thence out to the mouth of the bot- A valve-seat 1, properly ground and pro- .tle. y represents the removable cork that vided with a packing-ring 2, of cork, rubber, closes the mouth of the bottle, and 13 repre- 40 or other suitable soft material, is fitted into sentsaoircumferential channel formed partly the bottom of the neck and supported on a in the interior of the bottle-neck and partly bead or ledge 53, formed on the bottle,-and in in the exterior surface of the plug 8. This or on this seat is a suitably-ground valve 4. channel is to receive a suitable cement for This valve will be thin and hollow, so as to cementing the plug in place. Theseveral 45 be light and buoyant. A ball 5 rests, norpartsnamely, the valve-seat l, the buoyant mally, on the valve and occupies a cage 6 in valve 2, the ball 5, and the plugs 7 and S the neck. This cage is formed by a cagingwill be by preference molded from glass or plug 7, a cavity 7 in the bottom thereof formlike material, and the fit of the plug 8 in the ing the upper part of the ball-cage. This bottle-neck will be free or loose enough to 50 cavity will be of conical form, so that its permit of putting inasuitable liquid cement, I00

which latter should be of such a nature as to resist all ordinary agencies for displacing it or softening or dissolving it.

In attempting to fill the bottle by inverting it and forcing a liquid upward through the neck the buoyant valve will be floated up to its seat, and to insure this result the ball 5 and recess 7 will have such proportions that the ball will not permit the valve when the bottle is inverted to entirely disengage itself from the deeply-recessed conical valve-seat.

The valve and ball cannot be reached by a wire or other instrument inserted through the bore 12 in the plug 8, as this bore is axially situated, while the channels or passages 10 are situated :neXt the bottle-neck. Preferably the channels or passages 10 will be formed by a series of circumferential grooves in the plug 7 and channels extending lengthwise of the plug and connecting the circumferential grooves. These latter channels connect below with the ball-cage 6 and above with the bore or passage 12 by way of lateral passages.

The valve-seat may be formed integrally withthebottle-neck,as shown in Fig. 6,whercin 1 is the valve-seat thus integrally constructed.

The device to prevent refilling may be mounted in a tube distinct from the bottle, and thus adapted to be placed in the neck of a bottle and cemented in place. This constructionis illustrated in Fig. 7, wherein 14: is the tube, preferably of glass, adapted to slip down into the neck of the bottle and be cemented therein. There may be a groove or channel 15 similar to the groove 13 to receive a body of the cement. In the construction shown in Fig. 7 the valve-seat 1 is formed integrally with the tube 14.. The tube 14, it will be noted, occupies the place of the bottie-neck of the construction seen in Fig. 1. The ball 5 might be a marble of the proper size.

The channels 11 in the plug 7 may cut through the thin lower edge of the plug produced in forming the conical recess or cavity in the bottom thereof; but this is not important and will not interfere with the rolling of the ball over the inclined surface of the cavity 7. The tortuous channels 10, 11, and 12, through which the liquid flows, are formed in the closure above the valve, and this closure thus guards the valve against being tampered with. The ball is in the nature of a loose weight to hold the valve to its seat, its

spherical form permitting it to move freely.

- the groove or recess 13. and pushed down until the cork 9 is just be- Obviously this invention is not limited to any special mode of cementing the parts in the bottle-neck; but it may be stated that the mode I prefer to employ consists in providing the plug 8 with a groove or channel 16, Fig. 2, extending from the flange 8 down to The plugS is entered low the recess 13 and liquid cement poured into the channel 16 and allowed to flow down and flll said recess. The plug is then pushed down and the cement allowed to harden in the circumferential space formed at 13.

The purpose of the cork 9 is merely or mainly to keep the cement from flowing past the channel to receive it.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. In a device to prevent the refilling of a bottle, the combination with a neck-closure, comprising a tubular plug adapted to fit in the bottle-neck, said plug being provided with a cement-groove, and having a reduced and flared inner end, and a solid, eXteriorlygrooved plug having a transverse, dovetail recess in its top to receive the flared inner end of the tubular plug, and a conical cavity in its lower face, of a buoyant valve, and a hall thereon, substantially as set forth.

2. In a device to prevent the refilling of a bottle, the combination to form a neck-closure, of a tubular plug 8 having a flange 8 at its outer end, a circumferential cementgr0ove13, a reduced inner end and a packing-ring 9 just below said cement-groove, and a solid, eXteriorly-grooved plug 7, said plug 7 having a dovetail, transverse recess 7 extending across its top and engaged by the flared inner end of the plug 8, substantially as set' forth.

3. In a device to prevent the refilling of a bottle, the combination to form a neck-closure, of a tubular, flanged plug, having a cement-groove, and a flared inner end provided with apertures 11 at its end, and a solid plug with channels in its exterior surface to communicate with the apertures 11, said solid plug having in its upper surface a transverse, dovetail recess to receive the flared inner end of the tubular plug, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name, this 24th day of October, 1899, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JOHN OCONNOR.

WVitnesses:

HENRY CONNETT, PETER A. Ross. 

